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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 09:04:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
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On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Neil Brown wrote:
> 
> Effectively, this is a type-safe cast.  You still get the warning, but
> it looks more like the C that we are used to.

I wonder if the right answer isn't to just make things like "__u64" be
"long long" even on 64-bit architectures (at least those on which it is 64
bit, of course. I _think_ that's true of all of them). And then just use 
"llu" for it all.

Of course, the really _best_ option would be to have gcc's printf string 
format be extensible and dynamic.

Davem, is sparc64 "long long" 64-bit?

		Linus

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